Lifecycle Management for BPEL PM

After the initial setup of BPEL PM, there are some routine lifecycle operations that you need to do as a BPEL administrator. We will discuss those in the following sections.

BPEL suitcase deployment

In a development environment, developers and BPEL process designers deploy BPEL process to BPEL PM directly from the development IDE. This process works fine in the development environment. To deploy the BPEL processes in staging, QA or production environment developers need to package BPEL processes in BPEL suitcases, and system administrators deploy the BPEL suitcases.

Also, there are times when the same BPEL suitcase needs to be deployed in multiple environments, but for each deployment, some customizations are needed. For example, the same BPEL process is deployed in the QA and in the production environment, the BPEL process in QA environment needs to make a call to the partner link of the QA environment and the BPEL process in the production environment...